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The textile behind ANDETAG
ANDETAGdoes not begin with technology.
It begins with a weave.
Each work is created from a specially woven textile, where traditional materials meet optical fiber and light. The fabric is the foundation. It carries everything else.
The optical fiber textile is directly connected to hundreds of small LEDs, allowing the fabric to glow slowly, shift in color, and change over time. The light moves through the weave, rather than resting on its surface.
Malin weaves the textile at Ekelunds Linneväveri, Sweden’s oldest weaving mill, founded in 1692. The fabric is woven on an industrial jacquard loom, with a cotton warp and a mixed weft of cotton, optical fiber, chenille, shrink yarn, and lurex.
The method began taking shape in 2012, when Malin developed her first experiments as a student at the Swedish School of Textiles in Borås. Since then, the weaving has become a language of its own, where light can be built into the structure without the textile losing its body or expression.
After weaving, the work continues in the studio in Stockholm. The textile is processed, shaped, and heated, allowing the shrink yarn to contract and bend the optical fibers into a three-dimensional form.
The ends of the optical fibers are attached to hundreds of small LEDs using a technique that Tadaa has patented. This allows the light to become part of the textile, rather than something projected onto it.
When the form is set, the work is hand-sewn. Stitch by stitch, the textile is built up and attached to a soft base before being mounted in its frame. This is where the fabric becomes a sculpture, with a clear body and presence.
The textile is not just a surface.
It has life.
A slow process, woven from hands, time, and light.
